Voodoo Planet

Voodoo Planet is a sci-fi novella by Andre Norton. In this third part of the Dane Thorson/Solar Queen series we follow Dane, Captain Jellico and the medic Tau, who are left stuck on the planet Khatka, colonized ages ago by Africans when the Second Atomic War saw its final days. The heroic trio must endure battles with hazardous life forms and also take on a malevolent witch doctor who is conspiring to overtake the government...